basically says this: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41231585/

the answer, as usual, is balance! sometimes the benefits outweigh the detriments, and it is wildly true that the quality and nature of the content is more important than the quantity. but also there is no useful control group and we need more data. there is a recent meta analysis on SFV use that

just went to a different show and this happened again with the youth, truly middle school in line at the theme park velcro behavior, what is going on

i didn’t dislike it but, it wasn’t there.

thinking about this more and talking about it with my mom—it’s a good movie if you like vibes, but nothing about it is specific. the tree canopies and moss is good.

also the lines of hamlet the play are delivers too quickly and so clearly for the screen that i’m annoyed. performances from the mains and the children are pretty great.

cinematography is gorgeous, soundtrack & sound effects are great, it’s stupid that her hair is down all the time. besides the inaccuracy, it makes no sense for someone scraping about outside to always have their hair out, come on.

the book, for me, is much more about her relationship with her life: with her mother in law, the forest and garden, all her children, the town, her own conception of self, her husband, the world all at once. that doesn’t come through here.

like it still feels like s5 is an entirely different show and universe from the rest of the seasons.

anyway, they pulled it together a bit more for the finale but a lot of it is still pretty meh—there was no reason for the lead up to be that lousy and convoluted.

still ruminating on this, it’s just so bad? when it’s not inert it’s flailing, ugh.

the only good parts are joe in a backwards cap and mr. clark speaking friend to enter.

we switched to sticker giant at work b/c they do die cut and have a pre-scored back.

if apple is your choice it is marginally less evil than spotify right now, but there are several other options i think are better both functionally and otherwise.

supplement that with bandcamp & other ways of buying from artists directly. there are a bunch of options to move you from spotify to any of the other options easily—i migrated to apple music w/o an issue for approx 300 playlists, hated it on there, moved to tidal and that was just as easy to port

qobuz is the most ethical at the moment, but it’s missing a lot (for me). i moved to
tidal—haven’t had anything i feel
strongly about missing, and while there are a couple of dubious issues with it, they pay artists the most and the interface works the best out of the alternatives.

i mean it wasn’t it’s own class but the word was in use in the guides to refer to some magic users (but also that’s not how the show is using it, so it’s still annoying). it’s an inconsistency that would be forgiven if everything surrounding it wasn’t such a slog